Stephen Barlow

Conductor + Scholar + Actress

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BornJun 30, 1954

Stephen Barlow is a British conductor, principally of opera. From 2012 to 2014 he will be the Artistic Director of the Buxton Festival. He was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral before studying at King's School, Canterbury, then moving to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an Organ Scholar. In 1986 he married the actress Joanna Lumley, with whom he lives in London.… Read More

News + Updates

'In his new production for the ever-adventurous Mid-Wales Opera, Australian director <mark>Stephen Barlow</mark> updates the action to the period just after the second world war, with Pinkerton and Butterfly&#39;s home sited right under a sign for an American airbase'

'I first nearly met <mark>Stephen Barlow</mark> when he was 13 and due to come out to lunch with the son of friends of mine. (I was 21, and already had Jamie.) The boy Barlow, by all accounts staggeringly musical and rather tricky, never arrived and I can remember'

'The two other accused are <mark>Stephen Barlow</mark>, 47, and Richard Blundell, 49, all with addresses in Liverpool. Mr Murray, a former &quot;nightclub supervisor&quot;, was seeking bail to take up a new temporary job offer as a painter and decorator on Merseyside'

'It will be directed by <mark>Stephen Barlow</mark>, and the designer is Paul Edwards. The opera was recorded in 2008 for Opera Rara. This creative team will mount a new production of &#39;Carmen&#39; at St Louis in 2012. <mark>Stephen Barlow</mark> directed &#39;Don Pasquale&#39; at Opera'